![]() While 2017's Star Trek: Bridge Crew brought something similar to VR, it’s 2002's Bridge Commander that we want to herald in this list. But it’s wonderful that at 30 years old, these are still well worth playing today. It’s very painful to acknowledge that it’s now more years since this game came out than it was between the game and the original series’ airing. The second, Judgment Rites, repeated the format, but this time with an arc storyline running through its seven chapters.īoth games contain some colossal issues, with possible paths that lead to unacknowledged dead ends due to decisions you made hours previously, but also remain absolutely extraordinary examples of the potential of the adventure genre. The first game took the form of seven individual episodic stories that could each have been a proper entry from TOS, with an astonishing amount of variation in how its puzzles could be solved. (As it turns out, Judgment Rites would prove to be the very last time the original cast all worked together.) That’s right, Shatner, Nimoy, Nichols, Kelley, and Takei are all there, at a point when their cinematic stars were shining brightly, agreeing to voice the reams of dialogue for a lowly video game. These were Sierra-style point-n-click adventures, depicting cartoon versions of the original series’ (TOS) bridge crew, and most astonishingly, entirely voiced by the original actors. In fact, this entry should probably encompass two games, both 1992's Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and 1993's Star Trek: Judgment Rites, given they work so well as a whole. While LucasArts and Sierra dominated, many others caught a piece of the action, including Judgment Rites’ Interplay, Brian Fargo’s company that would also give us Fallout, Baldur’s Gate, and a miserable legal battle with Bethesda. The 1990s were the decade of the point-n-click adventure, the era during which the genre was capable of being a blockbuster commercial success. More than you’d think, in fact, as hopefully this list-in no particular order-will demonstrate. ![]() But games like Elite Force and Judgment Rites showed that TV’s corniest license could offer a basis for some top-notch entertainment. Sure, it’s hard to argue there’s anything that can measure up against TIE Fighter or Dark Forces, but then nor is there really in the rest of gaming. While it’s fair to say that Star Trek games have not exactly gained the nostalgic prestige of Star Wars properties, that doesn’t mean there isn’t gold-pressed latinum to be found among them. Fortunately, we have the authority to whittle the number down to a more manageable eight, in our legally binding list of the best among them. Go back into the Wild West of the ‘70s and ‘80s and that number shoots up when you include the unlicensed, unofficial titles. ![]() There have been, depending upon how you count, approximately 47 official Star Trek games. ![]() But rather than heading to Netflix and struggling through the first three seasons of Deep Space Nine all over again, what about dipping into its rich history of video games? All Rights Reserved.Ĭertificate of Authenticity : The Perth Mint’s numbered Certificate of Authenticity.As the final fan-service-strewn season of Star Trek: Picard comes to an end, confusing everyone by not being absolutely awful, you may well be in the mood for some more Trek before the return of Strange New Worlds in June. TM & C 2016 CBS Studios Inc STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios. BR> Each coin is presented in a special wooden case, with an illustrated shipper and numbered Certificate of Authenticity. The reverse design includes the marker’s mark. The reverse of the bar resembles a gold-pressed latinum slip as used in Star Trek : Deep Space Nine. Struck by The Perth Mint from 1oz of 99.9% pure silver no more than 5,000 of the Star Trek : Deep Space Nine Gold-Pressed Latinum Slip, will be released worldwide. Each denomination features a maker’s make for authenticity. One of the gold-pressed latinum is equal to twenty strips of 2,000 slips of latinum. There were several denominations of gold-pressed latinum, the smallest being the slip, followed by the strip, the bar, and the brick. The gold served only as a carrier for the latinum and was worthless to the Ferengi. In Order to be used as tradable currency, liquid latinum was suspended within gold or gold dust to form the end product, gold-pressed latinum. In the science fiction series Star Trek : Deep Space Nine, latinum was a rare silver coloured liquid of extremely high value prized by many civilizations in the Alpha Quadrant, particularly the Ferengi Alliance. 2016 $1 Star Trek : Deep Space Nine Gold-Pressed Latinum Slip Collector’s Edition 1oz Silver Gold-Plated Bar.
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